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In the New Yorker...
serious crayons:
I thought so, too!
Jeff Wrangler:
I mailed my renewal this morning. :)
Front-Ranger:
Yay! By this time, they should be paying us to read it!
What's with the fiction about bad mothers? I read "Motherless Child" in a recent issue and today I read "To Do" in the new issue that just came out and now I'm all depressed. :(
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on August 28, 2019, 05:34:58 pm ---Yay! By this time, they should be paying us to read it!
What's with the fiction about bad mothers? I read "Motherless Child" in a recent issue and today I read "To Do" in the new issue that just came out and now I'm all depressed. :(
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It's a long literary tradition. Now try to find fiction from a mother's point of view. Until very recently it was almost nonexistent.
I decided not to read "To Do" because I read the first few paragraphs and didn't really get swept into it. I almost never read the short stories anymore.
But now, thanks to you, I've looked up "Motherless Child" and focuses on the character of Olive Kitteridge. That one I will read, because I read a whole book by Strout in the form of short stories with connected characters, Olive Kitteridge being kind of a central figure even though she wasn't in all the stories. I rarely read fiction, but I loved that book. And I'd read Strout has a new one out, so this must be an excerpt.
Jeff Wrangler:
I have not yet started the Sept. 2 issue article about Iggy Pop, but I skimmed through it today on my way to the article about measles. I noticed a quotation from a New York Times article that referred to him as "Mr. Pop." :laugh:
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